Avoid places can protect you, protect you from the sun, from the wind blowing rain, can make you avoid insect infestation, escape the heat and cold, avoid the enemy’s search. From the body can also give you a sense of security, to help you maintain the will to live. Looking for from the body in some areas, might be more important than looking for food, is even more important than looking for water, for example, prolonged exposure to cold weather may lead to extreme fatigue and weakness (exhaustion), and extremely weak person may have a negative attitude, the outlook pessimistic. In order to avoid prolonged exposure to cold pessimism, you must have a suitable place to avoid body, so at this time to avoid the importance of the body for longer than the other requirements.
From the body place
When you are in an unfamiliar environment, should be at least 2 hours before the start of the sunrise looking for places to avoid. Looking for it, to think about what you need. The following is to avoid the body place necessary conditions:
Low must have manufacturing material from the body place.
Must be large enough, enough, can let you lie down comfortably. However, consider these necessary conditions at the same time, you also cannot ignore your combat situation or security situation.
You must consider hiding places at the same time satisfy the following conditions —
Low enough hidden, to avoid the enemy’s search.
Hidden escape channel is low.
If necessary, hiding place to be able to send signals.
Can provide protection, no wild animals, rolling rocks, or may be in danger of fallen trees. “No insects or other pests.
You must also pay attention to the following possible problems that occur in your environment, for example —
If it is at the foot of the mountain, to avoid the area of flash floods.
If it is in a mountainous area, avoid the rock caving area.
If is near the water, avoid the highest waterline area.
In some areas, the seasonal factors should consider when choose the hiding place. Ideal place to avoid body, winter and summer is not the same. In the cold winter, where you choose to not only can cover cold and cold wind, have fuel source and water source. The summer with region, avoid places nearby to have water, but also try to avoid insects infest.
Avoid body type
Had mentioned above, when you are looking for from the body place, want to consider the type you need, but you also need to consider other factors:
Avoid low build body need a lot of time and effort?
Low from the body to protect you from the following factors bothering you (rain, snow, wind, solar, etc.)?
When you have a build tool from the body? If not, you can use local materials improvised?
When you have built artificial material from the body need? If not, the region’s natural material is enough to use? However, to answer the above questions, you must understand how to make different types of body, and what materials they need to build.
Poncho shed from the body. To build the suspension body only need a very short time and little equipment. You need a poncho, a 6 to 10 feet (1.8 to 3 meters) of the rope, three piles, about 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and two are separated by about seven to nine feet (2 ~ 2.7 meters) of trees (or two poles).
Needs in the you choose trees (or choose where to put pole), to check the direction of the wind, to ensure that the back toward the wind from the body.
Set up the steps
If you are going to stay in the body for more than one night, or do you think it will rain, then add a central support to avoid body. Between two trees or two poles to pull a rope, the rope of highly consistent with the central part of the poncho. Again on poncho hat tied a rope, pull the rope up, makes the central poncho upward and then pull the rope and previous in the rope tightly together between two trees.
There is another kind of method, cut down a stick, should be vertical to the central poncho below, but this approach will limit your space and activities.
To better wind block rain, poncho in both sides put some branches, shrubs, or put your backpack or other equipment on both sides.
To reduce the loss of heat from the ground can be some of the heat insulation material, such as leaves, needles lay on the ground. Note: when resting, 80% of the body heat will be absorbed by the earth’s surface.
If you want to increase concealment, is not easy to detect by enemy, avoid two correction can do to reduce the height of the body side by: will be attached to the support line of tree height adjustable for knee high, rather than the waist-high, a stick of two knee through the middle button on both sides of the poncho. Pull a poncho sideways toward the ground, with sharpened stick will be fixed on the ground, poncho method as above.
Poncho tent. There are on either side of the tent is lower, protection. But rather than shed from the body, the scope of using this tent can be smaller, and the sight is not open, can affect your reaction to the enemy reconnaissance.
Set this tent, you need a poncho, two 5 to 8 feet (1.5 ~ 2.5 meters) long rope, six
About 6 inches (15 centimeters) long, sharpened sticks and two from seven to nine feet (2 ~ 2.7 meters) of the tree.
Set up the steps
If because of the rain, a central support you need, you can tie a rope on the poncho hat, then the system will be the end of a rope on a branch from the upper body, make the rope tight. The central support of another type is external
A frame, placing them on A tent. Find two 3 to 4 feet (0.9 ~ 1.2 meters) long sticks, of which one end of A stick to have split ends, the use of the two sticks in A frame. Tie A stay on his hat on A frame, this tent in the middle of the support.
Parachute from the body. If you have a parachute and three poles (and your combat situation permits), you can do a parachute teepee. This type of tent is easy to do, need time is not long, can provide protection against damage, of nature can also be used as a signaling device, because it can enhance the fire or a candle light, and the tent is enough big, can be used by a few people, can sleep in it, cooking, also can store firewood. Do this tent, you can use the main reserve parachute, or part of the umbrella umbrella or the entire wheel. If you are using a standard parachute, you need three 10 to 15 feet (3 ~ 4.5 meters) long, of about two inches (five centimeters) in diameter rod.
Set up the tent steps – (serial)
If you’re going to a fire inside the tent, you must be at the top of the tent for a 12 inches to 20 inches (30 ~ 50 cm) of openings, used for ventilation.
Parachute teepees another building method, this method needs a long pole and a sturdy tree, 14 block triangle parachute cloth. To the top of the parachute system in a about 20 feet (6 meters) long pole, have branches in a tree the ground under the tree to draw a circumference of about 12 feet (3.6 meters) of the circle. Tie rod in the branch, and then take the parachute cloak piles on the circle.
You can use a parachute, a tree, and the three poles easily into a single body. One of the poles need to about 15 feet (4.5 meters) long, the other two root was about 10 feet (3 m).
Build the steps from the body —
Parachute cloth makes the wind from the body performance is very good, and the suspension body area is small, heat preservation performance is good, a candle, and use it every time you be careful — can make from the body in very warm. When it snows, however, avoid the body is not satisfactory, even light, snow can also make it fall.
The field emergency shed from the body. If you’re in wooded areas, and there is plenty of natural material, so even if there are no tools or only a knife, you can do an emergency shed from the body.
Structures, avoid the body takes longer than structures, avoid the body takes a long time, but it also can protect you, protect you from most weather environment. You need two distance of about 6 feet (1.8 meters) of tree (or two poles for straight), one of them is about 7 feet (2.1 meters) long and about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in diameter rod for beam, five to eight root is about 10 feet (3 meters) long, of about 1 inch in diameter rod for girder, tied with rope or rattan, and other used to override on the girder’s stick, branches, or cane, etc.
To build the suspension body steps are as follows
In cold weather, you can build a wall around the fire to keep the body in more comfortable. The four pillars of about 4 feet (1.2 meters) long stick into the ground, the four stick is used to support the wall. Between the support rod pile of a pile of fresh wood had not been dried, and will support the top of the stick together, such as fresh wood can be secured. With small trees or small branches filling the space between the fresh wood. As long as a little effort, you can have a roasting rack. Cut up some about 3/4 inch in diameter (2 cm) of the rod (beam length depends on the suspension body to the wall around the fire at the top of the distance). Put one end of the pole to avoid body beam above, on the other side on the wall around the fire. Put some small branches between the pole and tie up. Now you can use this drying clothes shelf, roast meat, grilled fish.
Wetland bed. In this chapter we have mentioned in the beginning, from the body is a place to protect you from the natural environment. Or in the marsh wetland, wetland bed can make you avoid damp ground. You need to take an examination of when selecting a location
About the factors include the weather, wind, tidal and materials available.
Do the wetland bed steps are as follows
A hammock. If you have a poncho, parachute, tents, you can be used to make a hammock.
Nylon poncho, if you have a discount of thirty percent, it would increase its strength, make enough carrying your weight. If you have a parachute, you can take the umbrella’s four parts, the folding form a triangle, then tied to a tree. Natural body. Don’t overlook the hiding place of natural, such as caves, rock crack, between bushes, small cavity, disadvantage in the bottom of the big rock, branches shorter trees, branches and leaves and dense fallen trees. But when choosing natural from the body, need to pay attention to —
Avoid low-lying area, such as gullies, narrow valley, or the stream bed. The lower level will be affected by cold air at night, so colder than near the highlands. There will be more insect breeding and shrub density lowlands.
Low to check whether have poisonous snakes, ticks, insects, scorpions, bite of ants and so on, look have loose stones, they are likely to hit from the body, and other such as deadwood, nuts and other natural growth, as the storm came, they are likely to be hit from the body.
Snow buffalos from the body. If you are in the cold and snow cover area, and evergreen plants grow there, and you have a mining tools, you can make a snow buffalos from the body.
To build the suspension body steps —
Waterfront from the body. Avoid this kind of body to protect you from the exposure to the sun, the wind rain, very hot, and the use of natural materials are easy to build.
Set up to avoid body steps —
The desert from the body. In dry environment, avoid building body needed time and energy must be considered, but also need the material. If you have a canvas, parachute, poncho or aircraft sound insulation materials, you can use these materials, different terrain need different methods:
Rock method:
When looking for a rock protruding ground.
Low the poncho (canvas, parachute, or other material) at one end fixed on the side of rock, can use stone or other heavy objects on top.
Poncho will spread out, the other end is fixed, make its shape can keep out sunshine to a great extent.
Sand pile method:
A sand pile, or use one side of the sand dunes from one side of the body.
Low will materials (poncho, canvas, parachute) at one end of the fixed in above (or sand), sand can be fixed with sand or other heavy objects.
Material will be stretched out, the other end is fixed, make its shape can keep out sunshine to a great extent.
Note: if your material area is enough big, can be folded in half to form a between the two layers of 12 inches to 18 inches (30 ~ 45 cm) of space, so that we can reduce the body in the temperature.
Underground method: avoid this type of body could reduce the temperature of the noon 30 to 40 degrees. But than other types of suspension of the body, the suspension body built to spend more time, give more strength. Because physical labor or increase sweating, will accelerate dehydration, so you should wait until the cool night began to build again.
Building underground steps from the body
If you have a spare materials, can further reduce the temperature in the noon when ditches, add a layer of material on the cover material, the distance between the two layers of material of 12 inches to 18 inches (30 ~ 45 cm). This material can reduce avoid body temperature in the 20 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
